Well folks it all ended today at 1PM as we pulled into our home base and started the task of unloading the mother ship. Enjoyed a great meal with the grandkids in Victoria last night and catching up on all the things teenagers do today. Woke up to the sounds of pouring rain but it didn't deter us from packing up and pointing the rig at the Malahat and the mid island area. We had to make the requisite stop in Nanaimo for a timmies, jury is still out on that, it didn't do a lot for us so maybe we didn't miss like we thought we would. Arrived...

Well we are close now. Unbelievably we were both up at 630 this morning, excitement of a boat ride I guess. Had to make a quick stop at Fred Myer's for a return and then off to the border. One last stop at a Pilot station to top the rig off with reasonable gas and on to the border. We had a nice fellow there with just the routine questions and away we go. Just missed the 9AM boat so enjoyed the sunshine, got some colored Canadian money to spend and onboard we go. Nice ride through the islands and off to Victoria we go. That's when I...

We left San Diego around 2 pm on the 10th. We weren't supposed to be at M&M Coach until later in the day so we got there just before 4:30. They parked us for the night with power. We were ready when they were at 8 am the next morning. They worked on the solenoids in the jacks first and got those completed. Then they determined that the rubber seal on the rear slide did not need to be replaced so they just checked all the seals on the roof. We got to keep the 34 feet of seal that Tiffin had sent because they had sent it at no charge. We took...

Throughout our last night we hoped the monsoon-like downpour would stop in time for our scheduled 06:30am departure from La Manzanilla. No such luck!
It was a dark and stormy morning........ The rain still bucketed down, the lightning still flashed and the thunder still rolled as we made our getaway with Bruce driving the owner's car. The owner wanted to go to Manzanillo to see if she could get her television back from repair, and preferred to suffer this trip than pay for a second one on a dry day. We'd been in that car once before during...

While it's certainly no where near as warm as it was in Taiwan, spring has definitely arrived in Victoria. We were told that flowers would start blooming at the end of February and we didn't quite believe it. Well, it's true! The flowering cherries were already in full bloom when we arrived on March 5th and each day there are more and more signs of spring. I took the attached photos on a walk around the neighbourhood this morning and wanted to share them with all of you who are still freezing in other parts of the country and waiting...

Since it has been so long since we have had the time or the energy to write any blogs, we decided we would start at the current date and work backwards as far as we could. Fortunately, Doug has been keeping a rough list of each day's activities, to help jog our memories. Perhaps writing the blogs this way will work out for the best anyway, leading to a more holistic approach, and preventing us from getting too bogged down in the minute detail of our daily activities. To be honest, much of what we do most days is not blog worthy. Take today...

March 2, 2014
"The diamond-bright dawn woke men and crows and bullocks together. Kim sat up and yawned, shook himself, and thrilled with delight. This was seeing the world in real truth; this was life as he would have it — bustling and shouting, the buckling of belts, and beating of bullocks and creaking of wheels, lighting of fires and cooking of food, and new sights at every turn of the approving eye. The morning mist swept off in a whorl of silver, the parrots shot away to some distant river in shrieking green hosts: all the well-wheels...

Arrived back at Westbay about 6 PM after a 3 1/2 day jaunt up the east coast of the island. The main purpose of the trip was a pre-arranged visit with high school classmate Don Ramer and his partner, Cecelia, who live on Quadra Island, a short 10 minute ferry ride from the town of Campbell River (about 2/3 of the way up the coast). (Note: For anyone who doesn't know, Don and I dated for over 2 years in high school, but hadn't seen each other in over 40 years, until we chatted at South Collegiate's 85th Anniversary Reunion in May 2013.) At...

Continued the drive north to Campbell River, where we caught the 12:30 ferry to Quadra Island and the Ramer residence. (See March 11 blog). After Ted and Cornelia arrived, we had lunch and then the six of us walked around a nearby golf course with Drummer, Ted & Cornelia's dog. Following the walk, a sauna and some homemade beer and wine, we had a lovely salmon dinner.

Left Westbay about 12:30 today, on our way up the east coast of the island to visit Don Ramer and his partner Cecelia (See March 11 blog). Stopped along the way at Enrico Estate Winery, Ladysmith and Nanaimo before arriving at Cape Lazo RV Park in Comox a little before 7 PM.

Beyond my imagination is a phase I have been speaking a lot the last couple of days.
When I work with the world and ask them to help everything work out in a positive way, I sometimes try to figure out in my head which way things could go. I learned in Europe that the world can bring about the most amazing things that are beyond my imagination, so I don't know why I have to keep reminding myself.
Here is what I mean, when I went to Croatia last October Ireland was so far beyond my imagination that it might as well have been Pluto. Pluto...